First multi-million GDPR fine in Germany: €14.5 million for not having a proper data retention schedule in place
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Covert monitoring in the workplace – impact on an employee’s privacy
German Data Protection Authorities publishes a new GDPR model for fines
California Governor signs all 5 CCPA amendments
On Friday, October 11, 2019, the California Governor signed all five of the California Consumer Privacy Act amendments that were awaiting his signature (AB 25, 874, 1146, 1355, and 1564) as well as an amendment to California’s data breach law (AB 1130). We had previously written about the impact on CCPA if all five amendments went into effect here.…
Mic Drop: California AG releases long-awaited CCPA Rulemaking
On October 10, 2019, with just weeks to go until the law goes into effect, the California Attorney General released the long-awaited draft regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The proposed rules shed light on how the California AG is interpreting and will be enforcing key sections of the CCPA. In the press release announcing the proposed regulations, Attorney General Becerra described CCPA as “[providing] consumers with groundbreaking new rights on the use…
First Data Access Agreement under the CLOUD Act signed by UK and US
On 3 October 2019, the UK and US governments signed the first bilateral Data Access Agreement (the Agreement) under the US Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act 2018 (CLOUD Act) and the UK Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Act 2019.…
No surprises in the recent Planet49 European Court of Justice judgment
The right to be forgotten: the CJEU sides with Google in two landmark cases
Bank of England cyber resilience exercise
New York’s Breach Law Amendments and New Security Requirements
Although California has recently captured the lion’s share of attention with respect to privacy and security, on October 23, 2019, New York’s amended security breach law goes into effect, and on March 1, 2020, new security safeguards go live (N.Y. S.B. 5575). Anyone with personal information about a New York resident is potentially affected by these far-reaching amendments.
Breach Law Changes
Readers may recall that New York’s security breach notification law (N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law…